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Originally Posted by Pladi
Here is my 2 cents.
When buying a new car i want to make sure that there are no Major issues. Even if you could detect that the injectors are not good, its not really a reason to not buy a car it would me more of a price haggle thing..
So To answer your question the sophisticated devices that can read all PID sensors through the CAN protocol will give you alot of information and people on this forum will recommend the Schwaben tool but i dont think these tools are necessary for detecting major issues.
The issues you listed are not major and not a reason again not o buy the car.
What i recommend is that you do a compression test. Check fluid condition.
Listen for odd noises and if you can use a tool check the oil pressure at normal operating oil temperature.
Oil Pressure tells you alot.
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Thanks for your cents
I will most likely buy the car, but as I mentioned I need to fly to the location of sale and in best case drive it home for 5-6 hours of driving time. So having some immediate problem would not be good
Yea minor problems would come down to a price haggle thing, since the car is being sold "as is without warranty". I checked on my Diesel Volvo 2012 the generic ODB2/eODB was not able to read the Oil Pressure but the native Engine Control Module was able to read it perfectly.
Was interesting to see, so it was quite stable during idle, went up on acceleration. All in all stayed between 350-600 kPA (50-87psi), thanks for the advice!
I recon I will be able to find this in the BMW Module as well. Check and the Autel MD805 atleast lists about 50 + modules for the BMW F30, will update the main post.